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Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, and others from Facebook and Instagram, citing dangerous individuals and orgs policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan have been banned as well — Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones …
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Sources: Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr as it tries to steady Verizon Media Group, which has struggled to meet revenue targets — Wireless giant seeks buyer for social-media service that has lost ground to Facebook — Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking a buyer for blogging website Tumblr …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Azure SQL Database Edge, which will run on compute-constrained devices, and new AI, mixed reality, and IoT capabilities powered by Azure — A couple days ahead of Build 2019, Microsoft is showcasing some new AI, MR, IoT and blockchain capabilities powered by Azure … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Azure Blockchain Service, a fully managed service meant to help businesses build applications on top of blockchain technology — Microsoft didn't rush to bring blockchain technology to its Azure cloud computing platform, but over the course of the last year …
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Online extremism researchers face a similar toll on their mental health as content moderators, but, without anonymity, their work leaves them open to harassment — A COUPLE OF hours after the Christchurch massacre, I was on the phone with Whitney Phillips, a Syracuse professor whose research focuses … | Mijente: |
Document from May 2017 shows ICE used Palantir's software to target and arrest parents and other relatives of unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border — The data-mining firm Palantir played a key role in federal immigration efforts to target and arrest family members of children crossing …
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The Strong National Museum of Play announces Microsoft's Solitaire, first introduced with Windows 3.0 in 1990, will be inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame — The games in the 2019 class of The Strong's World Video Game Hall of Fame span the spectrum of gaming, with the brutality …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify spotted testing “Your Daily Drive,” a personalized playlist featuring short podcast episodes mixed in with curated music, to positive initial reactions — Spotify was recently spotted testing a new personalized playlist — the first one to mix music and podcasts, customized to user's musical tastes.
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Stripe says it's fifth engineering hub will be remote, to situate product development closer to customers, and it will hire 100+ remote engineers in 2019 — Stripe has engineering hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. We are establishing a fifth hub that is less traditional but no less important: Remote.
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| Mike Dudas / The Block: |
Report: Facebook seeks ~$1B from financial firms and e-commerce sites to back its stablecoin as it readies its payments network and rewards system for users — - Facebook is planning to launch a full payments network (rather than just remittances) and in discussions with payment networks Visa … | Bloomberg: |
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap — The congratulatory texts and tweets started the last week of November. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company …
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| Satyajit Sinha / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments up 48% YoY in Q1 2019: Apple Watch grew 49% YoY for a 35.8% market share, followed by Samsung's 127% YoY growth for an 11% share — Top nine brands contribute to 75% of the market shipment. Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei grew exponentially in Q1 2019| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 developer edition for $3,500, out later this year, says Unreal Engine 4 support for HoloLens 2 will be available by the end of May — Available later this year — Microsoft is launching a developer edition of the company's HoloLens 2 headset today.
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Windows Central, GeekWire, PCWorld, TechCrunch, The Register, Engadget, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @tomwarren
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Dark web marketplace Wall Street Market, whose admins exit-scammed users of $14.2M+ in cryptocurrency, seized by German police and other international agencies — Wall Street Market seized by law enforcement agencies from Germany, the US, the Netherlands, and Romania.
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DataBreaches.net. Tweets: @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @eileenormsby, @campuscodi, @zackwhittaker, and @campuscodi
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Researchers reverse engineer an app used by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which connects to a mass surveillance system for tracking Muslim minorities — ‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies — Languages — Chinese authorities are using …
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ZDNet, Human Rights Watch, and The Guardian
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